Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

I see all his miracles

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I believe in miracles; “In the beginning, God created.” But others who publish in Arkansas DemocratGa­zette’s Voices believe in what would be a much less probable miracle: In the beginning, nothing exploded into an orderly universe balanced to support life, and that with the accident of DNA, non-life evolved into many reproducti­ve spices!

I believe in the miracle of God’s word, without error in its original languages; unfortunat­ely, the pope’s, the pastor’s, the translator’s, and the denominati­on’s interpreta­tions are not always without error. However, God’s word is truth.

I believe that God created mankind in his own triune image with a free will. I believe that God gave us his Ten Commandmen­ts and expanded them in the New Testament. Unfortunat­ely, mankind always fails to fully obey God’s commandmen­ts, and thus we are sinners under God’s holy wrath.

But a greater miracle is that God loved mankind so much that he gave his one and only son (Jesus), so that everyone who believes (trust and obeys) him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his son into the world not to judge the world, but to save mankind through him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only son.

I believe Jesus when he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the father except through me.” And, “Everyone who acknowledg­es me publicly here on Earth, I will also acknowledg­e before my father in heaven. But everyone who denies me, I will also deny before my father in heaven.”

I believe the greatest miracles are God himself, creation, Passover/redemption,

and Resurrecti­on Day.

ALLEN MERRITT Rogers

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